Architect Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius

Living place: Berlin

Birthday: 18-5-1883

Global rank: #52734

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Who is Architect Walter Gropius?
Founder of the Bauhaus school and pioneer of the modern movement in architecture. Designed Cologne's Werkbund exhibition in 1914. helped found The Architects Collaborative in Cambridge.
His work includes the US Embassy in Athens, Greece, and the MetLife building in New York City.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He couldn't draw, so he hired an assistant in school to do his homework for him. He was hired by the company Peter Behrens 'in 1908, where he worked with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Dietrich Marcks.

Family life info

He was born the third child of architects Walter Adolph Gropius and Manon Auguste Pauline Scharnweber. He married Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler's widow; They divorced in 1920.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Architect Walter Gropius?
He and Le Corbusier were two of the key influences on modern architecture; both worked for the Behrens at the same time.

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When was Architect Walter Gropius born?
Walter Gropius was born in 18-5-1883, death year is , at the age of 141.
Where is Architect Walter Gropius's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Walter Gropius was born in Berlin, of Germany. is a Architect, whose Zodiac is Taurus, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Goat. Walter Gropius's global rank is 52734 and whose rank is 46 in list of famous Architect.
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Events in 1883 and 18-5

Birthday Walter Gropius (18-5) in history

  • Day 18-5 year 1642: The city of Montreal in Canada today was founded by the French.
  • Day 18-5 year 1804: Napoleon Bonaparte was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate.
  • Day 18-5 year 1896: The Supreme Court affirmed racial segregation in Plessy v. Ferguson as "separate but equal."
  • Day 18-5 year 1920: Pope John Paul II was born near Krakow, Poland.
  • Day 18-5 year 1953: Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
  • Day 18-5 year 1974: India became the 6th country to become a nuclear power.
  • Day 18-5 year 1980: Mount St. Helens, in Washington state, erupted after being dormant for 123 years.
  • Day 18-5 year 1994: Israeli troops withdrew from the Gaza strip after three decades of occupation and Palestinians took over.
  • Day 18-5 year 2000: A bill was finally passed that removed the Confederate flag from the South Carolina statehouse.
  • Day 18-5 year 2003: President Megawati Sukarnoputri of Indonesia declared martial law and sent 30,000 troops into Aceh.
  • Day 18-5 year 2004: Sonia Gandhi stunned her party, the Indian National Congress, by refusing to accept the prime ministership of India.
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